I know this sounds STUPID….but it is life !
In fact it is my life…..with JESUS CHRIST personally
ONE ~ on ~ one.

I sprained my foot this summer helping install a ceiling fan.
I broke my foot in the same place in Africa this fall.
I just got released of wearing a boot a few weeks ago.
I went out to help Rock cut wood 2 days ago …..and BAM.

Foot swelled up like a banchy…..
Turned colors…
Pain is the worst of any of the above….

So I tried putting it back in the wrap w/ a brace…
PAIN….intense.
So, I gave up….and put it back IN THE BOOT.

The boot absorbs the pressure.
The boot keeps it in the same position.
The boot strengthens my leg to walk.
to the point of less pain !

Then I thot……IS THIS NOT OUR LIVES IN JESUS CHRIST ?

Put ourselves  –  in the WORD  – strengthens my walk
– in the Spirit –  keeps us in the right position
– in prayer – absorbs the pressure

and you got it =  LESS PAIN………..

I have been thinking how I have had to hobble around ….
how my walk in the flesh has little freedom for a long time…
how I can not just ” walk care free”….and in many ways..
it represents my own life right now….the circumstances of my flesh.

but in the SPIRIT….no limp, no hobble, not bound at all, at all, at all.

I will do what ever I have to do…to walk in the flesh,
Boot, wrap, brace, ” what ever”   who cares !
and in the SPIRIT….

I will be intentional….to be IN HIS WORD daily
to pray to HIM continuously
to let my spirit align with HIS SPIRIT….

So that I walk to where HE desires me to be…
in the pace,
in the strength that only HE CAN GIVE….

Walking in and of myself…..ain’t workin’ in the flesh right now
and it NEVER DOES….

In the SPIRIT !